exilent
\ɛɡ.zil\
The verdict
“exilent” is uncommon French (frequency #96,904 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,904
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de flûte à bec qui sonne une octave au dessus de la flûte soprano, et une quinte au dessus de la flûte sopranino.
Corpus desk
Index FR-exilent · exilent · French
exilent · rank #96,904 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,904
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH exiges
Nearest frequency peer: exiges (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « exilent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- exfiltré
exfiltré
3,100 corpus weight
- exhibée
exhibée
3,099 corpus weight
- exiges
exiges
3,098 corpus weight
- exilent
exilent
3,097 corpus weight
- expirez
expirez
3,096 corpus weight
- explicitant
explicitant
3,095 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « exilent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | exilent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛɡ.zil\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #96,904 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « exilent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
exilent is uncommon French at frequency #96,904 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛɡ.zil\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sorte de flûte à bec qui sonne une octave au dessus de la flûte soprano, et une quinte au dessus de la flûte sopranino.".
exilent has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is exilent, spelled E-X-I-L-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Sorte de flûte à bec qui sonne une octave au dessus de la flûte soprano, et une quinte au dessus de la flûte sopranino.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how exilent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il en existe de plusieurs tailles (de l’exilent d'environ 16 cm au sopranino, soprano, alto, ténor, basset, basse et contrebasse, ou grande basse, d'environ 2 m). Chacune couvre à peu près deux octaves.
Ou bien, s'agirait-il, comme nous l'a suggéré le flûtiste Francis Mercet, l’exilent en Sol (sorte de sopranino), mentionné par Michael Praetorius dans son Syntagma musicum, qui sonne trois octaves plus haut que la « grande basse» en Fa?
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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